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Author:   Willibald Steinmetz (Professor of Modern and Contemporary Political History, University of Bielefeld)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.661kg
ISBN:  

9780199602964

ISBN 10:   0199602964
Pages:   422
Publication Date:   12 May 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   In Print  
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Part I. Introduction 1: Willibald Steinmetz: New Perspectives on the Study of Language and Power in the Short Twentieth Century 2: Angelika Linke: Politics as Linguistic Performance: Function and 'Magic' of Communicative Practices Part II. The Rise of the Dictators and the Semantics of Leadership 3: Emilio Gentile: Fascistese: The Religious Dimensions of Political Language in Fascist Italy 4: Judith Devlin: Visualizing Political Language in the Stalin Cult: The Georgian Art Exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery Part III. Mind your Words! Policing Linguistic Boundaries (1920s-40s) 5: Igal Halfin: Revolutionary Selves: The Russian Intelligentsia from Old to New 6: Isabel Richter: Faced with Death: Gestapo Interrogations and Clemency Pleas in High Treason Trials by the National Socialist Volksgerichtshof 7: Sian Nicholas: Policing Tonal Boundaries: Constructing the Nazi/German Enemy on the Wartime BBC 8: Olaf Stieglitz: Keep Quiet . . . But Tell!! Political Language and the 'Alert Citizen' in Second World War America 9: Heidrun Kamper: Telling the Truth: Counter-Discourses in Diaries under Totalitarian Regimes (Nazi Germany and Early GDR) Part IV. The Growth of Linguistic Awareness in the Cold War Era 10: Thomas Mergel: The Unknown and the Familiar Enemy: The Semantics of Anti-Communism in the USA and Germany, 1945-75 11: Ralph Jessen: Semantic Strategies of Inclusion and Exclusion in the German Democratic Republic (1949-89) 12: Martin H. Geyer: War over Words: The Search for a Public Language in West Germany 13: Gareth Stedman Jones: The Return of Language: Radicalism and the British Historians 1960-90 14: Ruth Wodak: Suppression of the Nazi Past, Coded Languages, and Discourse of Silence: Applying the Discourse-Historical Approach to Post-War Anti-Semitism in Austria

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